Remember that scene in You’ve Got Mail, when Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan), the owner of a quaint, independent bookstore called The Shop Around the Corner, pays a visit to her new neighbour Fox Books, a big, Barnes & Noble-style bookstore run by Joe Fox (Tom Hanks)?

As she wanders from section to section, checking out her competitor’s umpteen bells and whistles, it becomes painfully clear to Kelly her decades-old establishment, which she inherited from her mother, isn’t long for this world

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